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couple of dozen or so plants to be pro¬ 
tected, they may be covered with cones 
made of several thicknesses of newspaper, 
or large-size empty tin cans or large 
flower pots. The trouble involved in giv¬ 
ing such protection will be much less than 
that required to replant, to say nothing of 
the cost of new plants. 
In walking back and forth over the rows 
to prepare the hills and set out the plants, 
the soil will become more or less tramped 
down. To get it back into loose friable 
condition, ready for the plant-roots to 
push out into easily in their search for 
plant-food, put the cultivator teeth on the 
wheel hoe and go over it once or twice to 
get it back into condition. Then go over 
the surface, in the row and between the 
plants, with the steel-tooth garden rake, 
and make it fine and smooth, so that not a 
single day’s unnecessary waste of water 
from evaporation will take place. Then 
cultivate often enough to keep this soil 
mulch in condition, never allowing a crust 
to form. 
Unless irrigation can be given, the egg¬ 
plants at least should be mulched with 
light, spent manure, old mulching from 
the strawberry bed, grass clippings, or 
something of the sort. Any watering 
given through a mulch of this sort will be 
doubly effective. 
In preparation of the soil, careful selec¬ 
tion of strong plants, details of planting 
and fertilizing, all that has been said in 
regard to peppers and egg-plants, applies 
with equal force to tomatoes, although a 
few of the early sorts are usually “risked,” 
and very often lost, by setting them before 
all danger of frost is over. 
Tomato vines left to themselves, even if 
supported from the ground so that the 
fruit will not rot from that cause, will 
produce such an abundance of vines and 
set so much fruit that the crop will be 
late and inferior in quality. To secure 
the earliest fruit, pinch out all the side 
shoots which farm at the axes of the 
leaves as soon as they appear, training up 
only one or two main stalks. 
Peppers, egg-plants and tomatoes are all 
comparatively free from serious insect and 
disease pests. Potato bugs are extremely 
fond of egg-plants, sometimes doing sud¬ 
den and serious damage by eating into the 
stems, blossoms and small fruits. Imme¬ 
diate hand-picking, to keep the bugs from 
doing harm, and careful spraying with 
rather strong arsenate of lead, will pro¬ 
tect them. Tomatoes that are well sup¬ 
ported and trained to allow a free circu¬ 
lation of air and plenty of sunshine seldom 
need spraying. The large green “tomato 
worm” occasionally causes trouble, but 
they are easily kept off a small number of 
plants by hand, a convenient way being to 
simply pick the leaf upon which one is 
feeding, even if he “snaps” from side to 
side, and drop it into a can to destroy 
when they are all “picked.” Or strong 
arsenate of lead will finish them. 
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